A security researcher was awarded with a $6,000 (roughly Rs. 4.5 lakhs) bug bounty pay after discovering that Instagram retained data on its server even after he had deleted them, as per reports.
A security researcher was awarded with $6,000 (roughly Rs.4.5 lakhs) bug bounty pay after he discovered that Instagram retained photos and private direct messages on its server even after deletion, as per an online report. The researcher reported the bug in October last year through Instagram’s bug bounty programme, and it was fixed earlier this month by the Facebook-owned company. While it is not uncommon for companies to keep freshly deleted data for a while until it can be properly removed from its networks, independent security researcher Saugat Pokharel found that Instagram’s servers still had the data that Pokharel had deleted more than a year ago, according to a report by TechCrunch.
